Thursday, December 14, 2023

Indian Bread

Ingredients

  • Indian meal
  • Cold water
  • Salt
  • Yeast

Directions

  1. Mix Indian meal and cold water until it has a thick consistency.
  2. Stir the mixture into boiling water.
  3. Boil for 30 minutes.
  4. Stir in a little salt and remove from heat to become lukewarm.
  5. Stir in yeast and Indian meal until it has the consistency of common dough.
  6. Pour the mixture into greased pans and let the dough sit for a few minutes. 
  7. Bake for two and a half hours.
Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Nathaniel Anderson
Louisiana Anthology
December 14, 2023

Sunday, December 10, 2023

Pork Potpie

Ingredients

  • One butter stick
  • One large pot
  • One quart of cold water
  • Two chine of pork
  • Six parboiled potatoes
  • Upper and lower crusts for pies
  • Salt and pepper
  • Concentrated pork broth (paste)

Directions

  1. Butter the entire pot then line the sides with concentrated pork broth.
  2. Cut the chine of pork into riblets 
  3. Layer riblets, paste, and sliced potatoes into the pot until nearly filled.
  4. Season with salt and pepper then pour the quart of cold water.
  5. Lay the upper crust then cut a slit in it.
  6. Cook and boil from an hour and a half to two hours.
  7. Take out the upper crust and meat from the boil.
  8. Place over lower crust then ready to serve!
Source — The Unrivalled Cook-Book
Prepared by Dylan Ronquille
Louisiana Anthology
December 9, 2023

Saturday, December 9, 2023

Crawfish Corn Soup

Ingredients

  • 1 large pack of precooked crawfish tails
  • One quart of half-and-half
  • Two or three cans of whole corn
  • Five pounds of small red potatoes
  • Five cans of cream of celery soup
  • Dash of liquid crab boil
  • Your choice of seasoning

Directions

  1. Boil potatoes separately until they are soft.
  2. Mix all other ingredients into a separate pot.
  3. Add potatoes when they are soft.
  4. Cook at low temperature for one hour.
  5. Serve hot and ready!
Source — My Mother
Prepared by Stacie Ronquille
Louisiana Anthology
December 9, 2023

Buttermilk Muffins

Ingredients

  • One quart of buttermilk, or curdled sweet milk
  • One teaspoon of soda that has been dissolved in hot water
  • One teaspoon of salt
  • Two eggs
  • Two cups of flour

Directions

  1. Beat eggs in one large bowl.
  2. Pour preferred milk into the bowl and stir well.
  3. Add flour, salt, and soda to the bowl.
  4. Mix until it looks lumpy.
  5. Portion mix into muffin pan.
  6. Bake at 350°F for 25 to 30 minutes.
  7. Serve hot and ready!
Source — The Unrivalled Cook-Book
Prepared by Dylan Ronquille
Louisiana Anthology
December 9, 2023

Friday, December 8, 2023

White Soup for Supper

Ingredients

  • One quart of new milk 
  • One pint of fresh cream
  • One piece of lemon peel
  • One teaspoon of white sugar
  • One pinch of fine salt
  • One small stick of Cinnamon
  • Two ounces of sweet almonds
  • Three bitter almonds
  • Three coriander seeds
  • Ten eggs



Directions

  1. Set aside fresh cream, eggs, and almonds.
  2. Blanch and fine all ingredients into a mortar.
  3. Boil all ingredients for 5-10 minutes.
  4. Set aside cookware to cool.
  5. Grab a new stewpan while the fire is still burning.
  6. Mix and stir fresh cream, eggs, and almonds in the stewpan until it thickens.
  7. Pour over slices of French rolls.
  8. Serve hot and ready.
Source — The Unrivalled Cook-Book
Prepared by Dylan Ronquille
Louisiana Anthology
December 6, 2023

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Protein pancakes

Ingredients

  • 2 large brown eggs
  • 1 tbsp of vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp of stevia 
  • 1/2 cup of plain Greek yogurt
  • 2 scoops of unsweetened whey protein powder
  • 1 tsp baking powder 
  • cooking oil

Directions

  1. In a bowl whisk together the eggs, stevia, vanilla extract, and Greek yogurt.
  2. Add the protein powder into the mixture and whisk until smooth. 
  3. Add in the baking powder and whisk. 
  4. Heat a non-stick griddle over medium heat, and spray with cooking oil.
  5. Slowly pour pancake batter onto the griddle, cook the pancakes until bubbling on top, then flip the pancake to the other side and cook for about 20 seconds. Be sure not to overcook the pancakes or they will be dry.
  6. Place cooked pancakes onto a plate and serve immediately. 
Source — Healthy Recipes
Prepared by Kaitlyn Bottrell
Louisiana Anthology
December 6, 2023

Black Cake

Ingredients

  • 1 lb. of butter
  • 1 lb. of granulated sugar
  • 12 eggs 
  • 1 lb. of flour
  • 3 lbs. of stoned raisins
  • 3 lbs. of cleaned currants
  • 5 grated nutmegs 
  • 1/2 oz. of pounded cinnamon 
  • 1 tsp. of ground cloves
  • 1 lb. of citron

Directions

  1. Heat oven to 225 degrees, and butter a 9-inch cake pan.
  2. Cut the citron into thin slices.
  3. Combine the butter and the sugar and beat into a cream consistency.
  4. Add the eggs and whip to a froth.
  5. Sift flour into the mixture.
  6. Sift ground cloves into the mixture, and mix together.
  7. Add all the stoned raisins, cleaned currants, and nutmegs and mix.
  8. Add cinnamon and citron into the mixture and mix well. 
  9. Pour mixture into the cake pan, and bake for 2 to 3 hours, the cake will be ready when the tester comes out clean. 
Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Kaitlyn Bottrell
Louisiana Anthology
December 6, 2023